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Tie up

verb

Secure with or as if with ropes. Synonyms: bind, tie down, truss. "Tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed"

Invest so as to make unavailable for other purposes.

Restrain from moving or operating normally.

Secure in or as if in a berth or dock. Synonyms: berth, moor.

Finish the last row. Synonym: bind off.

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"Tie up" Quotes from Famous Books

... money in your pocket-handkerchief, my worthy sir," said the old soldier, as I wildly plunged my hands into my heap of gold. "Tie it up, as we used to tie up a bit of dinner in the Grand Army; your winnings are too heavy for any breeches-pockets that ever were sewed. There! that's it—shovel them in, notes and all! Credie! what luck! Stop! another napoleon on the floor! Ah! sacre petit polisson de Napoleon! have I found thee at last? ...

— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

... a rather indifferent way to look over the papers. He loosened the band round them, and took them up one by one, gave a careless glance at them, and laid them together to tie up again when he had gone through them. Master Gridley saw all this process, thinking what a fool he was all the time to be watching such a simple proceeding. Presently he noticed a more sudden movement: the young ...

— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... kill people they sometimes tie up their eyes, and bind their hands, and make them walk along a plank stickin' over the ship's side, till they fall off the end of it into the sea, where ...

— The Madman and the Pirate • R.M. Ballantyne

... solemnly read aloud by young Heron, the notary, the cook came into the room and asked Monsieur Hochon for some twine to truss up the turkey,—an essential feature of the repast. The old man dove into the pocket of his surtout, pulled out an end of string which had evidently already served to tie up a parcel, and gave it to her; but before she could leave the room he called out, "Gritte, mind you give it back to me!" (Gritte is the abbreviation used in Berry ...

— The Two Brothers • Honore de Balzac

... who thinks only of gratifying his inclinations, who is not afraid to be reckless and inconsiderate of others, and who fails to keep his word, is hardly a fit person to be placed in control of money. It frequently happens that a father feels it a duty, when he makes his will, to tie up the family inheritance in such a way that it will be beyond the reach of ...

— Heart and Soul • Victor Mapes (AKA Maveric Post)

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